Motif
water as divine provision and trial
water_as_divine_provision_and_trial
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Healing and Provision. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 8695-8860 confidence: medium
If the Meccans keep straight in that way, God will give abundant waters to test them; whoever withdraws from remembrance of his Lord will be sent into severe torment.
Waters are described both as abundance used to prove people and as a provision that only God can restore if it sinks away.
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